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Thursday, June 22, 2017

ADFS : Moving the "Active Directory" IDP entry to the top of the list

This is for ADFS 4.0 (Server 2016).

This post shows how to rename the "Active Directory" IDP and at the bottom of the post is a comment around "move Active Directory to Top" and some script.

This script assumes a set number of IDP and looking at the script, it seems to move the names but not the URL i.e. if you had two IDP viz. IDP A and "Active Directory", it would swop the names around but clicking "Active Directory" would in fact navigate to IDP A.

Also, there are other considerations as mentioned by @Jorge in a reply:

"The list of IdPs in general is dynamic as you may add or remove an IdP. The code should take that into account.

In addition, per RP trust you can also specify a list of IdP that are
allowed to use that RP trust and that list is a subset of the overall
list of IdPs. Again, the code should take that into account.

It should not matter how long the IdP list is.

Is it possible to make this dynamic where the logic is something like:

* if more than 1 IdP is listed and the AD IdP is included, then move that IdP to the top."

I needed to move this entry to the top.

I would not have got this to work without having the ability to debug.

This is the script I came up with:

// This script moves the "Active Directory" entry (the local IDP) to the top of the list.// Per RP trust you can specify a list of IdP that are allowed to use that RP trust and that list is a subset // of the overall list of IdPs. This list may not have an "Active Directory" entry.// If there is only one entry, no point in re-ordering!// The logic is:// If more than one IDP is listed and the "Active Directory" IDP is included, then move that IdP to the top.//debugger;var idp = document.getElementsByClassName("idp");
var totElements = idp.length;
var listAllSpanForIdp = document.getElementsByClassName("idpDescription float");
var adElementPresent = false;
var inc;
for (inc = 0; inc < listAllSpanForIdp.length; inc++) {
if (listAllSpanForIdp[inc].innerText == "Active Directory") {
adElementPresent = true;
}
}
if ((totElements > 1) && (adElementPresent)) {
var lastElement = totElements - 1;
idp[lastElement].parentNode.insertBefore(idp[lastElement], idp[0]);
}

You get the parent of the node. You then call the insertBefore method on the parent and you pass it the idp[lastElement] node (the "Active Directory" IDP one) and tell it you want it inserted before idp[0] (the first one). This then swops their order.